The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-05-06
NUMBER 46
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.

1t is again rumored in New York tina
James Gordon Bennett is about to sci
the Herald to one of Mr.. Bells sons.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster and Heller
Gouger will 60 to Europe this month
A reception will be gwen them on Ma,
23i.
Jay Gould is very fond of his young
est son Howard, who is about twelve
years old, and who closely resembles
his father.
A. F. Billingslea, inspector of furni
ture for the treasury department, gets &
salary of 5000 year, with very light
duties.
Jay Gould sent fine display of rho
dodendrons, azaieas and other plants tc
the New York Horticultural society'l
exhibition.
Carlina Patti, Madame PATHS niece
and adopted daughter, has typical Ital
ian features and does not resemble hel
Spanish-looking aunt.
There is no doctor at South Manitou
Mich, and the only illness reported is 9
skin disease among the children, which
is sometimes called itch.
The Henry George Social Science Club
of Baltimore, has asked for accommoda
tons in John Hopkins University for 9
meeting one night each week.
Matthew Cherry, negro of Washing
ton, has invented vehicle for carrying
four passengers which he works with hi
feet. He is making money out Of it.
Special Envoy A. G.. Sedgwick, wht
recently was the talk of the country, il
a brother-in-law to w. +. Darwin, Sol
of the great author of "Origin of Spe
cies."
Besides interviews with leading ply
sicians and others, there are other rea
sons warranting the belief that the OPT
um habit is increasing in San Francisco
to an alarming extent.
George w. Childs, of Philadelphia
has splendid wine cellar, filed will
the cream of the best vineyards, Dut h,
never drinks anything stronger thar
Appollinaris water himself.
James Wood, millionaire, builder ant
philanthrophist, who died in Harlem
N. Y, was born in Ireland in 1910, and
coming to this country, began life as
cart driver in New York City.
Hon. Ira Davenport's bride, Kathe
rine Sharpe, wore at the wedding whit,
satin with train trimmed with rare ole
lace and white lilacs and veil of poin
lace. She carried bouquet of white
lilacs.
tits estimated that four hundred lead
ing members of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association will attend the twenty
seventh session of the Internationa
Association, which meets i'm San Fran
cisco May 10.
The German Gen. Blumenthal is ex
pected to shortly retire from active ser
vice. Although advanced in age, he
was considered as the successor to Gen
Won Moltke, but his health has recently
become enfeebled.
The San Francisco Chronicle announce,
the probable fatal illness of Pere Hya
cinthe, which, 1t says, brings him once
more into prominence, and emphasizes
the failure of what promised 10 great
revolution in the Church.
Out of total population of about
thirteen thousand in Port Huron and
Fort Gratiot, Mich, little less thar
four thousand are church members
This probably comprises nearly half the
adult inhabitants of the two places.
Rev. David Gregg, an eloquent divine
preaching in Boston on Sabbath Oh.
servance," urging the necessity for leg
islation was exigent, declared that on
the day the Senate deliberated as tc
what it would do in this regard it should
do 30 with open Bibles, and that the
code of the State should be made in &C
cordance with the will of God.
Mr.. William M. Durfee, for thirty
years connected with the ticket anC
freight departments of the Providence
and Worcester Railroad, will, in a few
days, resign the general passenger and
ticket agency which he has held fol
more than twenty years. The Office
will then be abolished, and the duties
transferred to the Superintendent's de.
partment.
A bachelors ball was given in Phila.
delphia by $50 young unmarried men in
various conditions of life, each of whom
took lady. There was probbaly not q
man over thirty. There were no chape.
rones, and with the exception of few
youthful married women, there were
only young girls present, and most o.
them We're very pretty.
New York Times: Before the war we
had, in our dealings with foreign ma.
tons, the jealousy and loneliness of a
boy in the company of his elders, whom
he strongly suspects of deeming them.
selves his superiors. An aggressive and
self-asserting demeanor, expressed up
on occasions in "tall talk" and buster
was the natural accomplishments of sucf
a stage of national evolution. We have
discarded it simply because we hat6 M
longer any uneasy doubts of our owl
national position, or of the esteem in
which We are held by other nations.
The good people of New Orleans were
preparing for visit from Mr.. Bancroft
and were disappointed. They have
now ascertained that there are two Ban
crofts, and while some of the people
were thinking of Hon. George Bancroft
the historian of the United States, fal
larger number were awaiting with inter
est the coming of Mr.. f. G. Bancroft,
the eminent base ball manager, one OF
the highest authorities extant on double
curved pitching and bases on called
balls.
AT the Women's Suffrage Convention
in York, one of the ladies declared that
while she was in Albany trying to assist
the passage of the woman suffrage bill
see was sent TO the rum shops to find
members of the Assembly. Mrs. Blake
criticised the conduct of Assemblyman
Grossly, and attributed the defeat Of
his high license bill to his opposition Ia
woman suffrage.
Hon. John G. Daucy, of Salisbury, N
c., in a lecture in Boston, warned
Northern people against forming opin-
ions of the colored population of the
South from representations made by